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Janet Paterson
Frame was a well known and famous writer from New Zealand. She
was born in Dunedin New Zealand and has grown up in Oamaru. She
was born in August 1924. She wrote a variety of articles and
books, three volumes of autobiography, children’s book, short
stories, poetry book, and eleven novels. Janet Frame went in
Oamaru North School and Waitaki Girls High School also in Oamaru.
As from 1943 Janet Frame went in the Dunedin Teachers College
and she also studied psychology, French and English at the
University of Otago. She has spent a lot of time in North
America Ibiza, Andorra and London. In the year 1951 Janet Frame
published her first book which was a collection of stories; the
title was “The Lagoon and Other Stories”. For the book “The
Carpathians” Janet Frame won the Commonwealth Writers prize in
1989. Janet Frame was considered as a famous person in Oamaru,
she passed away in January 2004. Owen Marshall and Fiona Farrell
Poole also writers, are also considered as famous person of
Oamaru. Oamaru on the South Island of New is also home of the
famous Oamaru stone with which many buildings have been built
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